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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by pjc50 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:32AM (#14552981)
Yes, and we can also measure the inflation rate, which is pretty flat: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

So why don't these two line up? I submit two candidate explanations:

a) inflation is actually more an exchange-rate phenomenon, especially vs the dollar, so printing dollars or virtual M2 dollars makes remarkably little difference;

b) CPI does a poor job of capturing cost-of-living due to housing.

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